Wednesday, March 09, 2016

That Fox News Democratic town hall was actually supposed to be a debate between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.

The first Fox New Democratic town hall held Monday night had its origins as a planned debate between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, but the idea was scrapped after Trump pulled out of the debate.

The New York Times reports that Fox executives had the idea, which would have “made primary debate history” as the first face-off between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates before either party picked its nominee. The Sanders campaign agreed to the debate and the Trump campaign was “very intrigued” with the idea.

However, “before the debate could be announced, the Trump campaign pulled out, citing scheduling conflicts, so the network planned to welcome just Mr. Sanders in an hourlong town-hall-style event, hosted by Bret Baier as part of his ‘Special Report’ program.” Shortly after Fox announced the Sanders town hall, Hillary Clinton accepted an earlier invitation that she had rebuffed and the Democratic town hall was born.

Damn, as much as I enjoyed watching Hillary kneecap Bret Baier over the e-mail "scandal" I have to admit it pales in comparison to the joy I would have experienced watching Bernie Sanders embarrass Trump on the conservative propaganda network.

I would like to simply call Trump a coward here, but it is smart of him to refuse this invitation. He would come off looking like an idiot.

However I kind of feel badly for Bernie.

After the town hall nobody really cared much about what he had to say, and Hillary stole the limelight.

But if it had been Sanders vs Trump, it would have greatly elevated Bernie is the polls and definitely showed the world that he could defeat the Donald in the general.

This sours me even more on Sanders. I can't imagine either party would sanction a Sanders-Trump town hall--it would be disadvantageous to all other candidates at this point. It's troubling that Sanders agreed to it.

Bernie knew it would be an unsanctioned debate and he would draw fire from the DNC and that is exactly why he would have agreed to this debate and it's another example showing that Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.

Phyllis at 3:24 pm. I'm not sure if my response got through or if it morphed above. Anyway, you wrote exactly what I was thinking. Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat. He is using the Democratic Party.Beaglemom

You know when I posted this I was not thinking about the fact that it was a little back stabbing for Sanders to agree to a debate like this with the likely GOP nominee, before the nomination process had run its course, but you guys are right that this IS a shitty thing to do.

@ Phyliss, If Bernie doesn't like our party than maybe he should have run under his own party's banner? Oh, but that would have been too much work, he wants the democratic setup but spits at us democrats. F Bernie.

"The media, the Democrat Party was able to convince a majority of Americans that Bush was rotten, that Bush was a liar, that Bush was incompetent, that Bush was stupid, and all of the reverence that he showed for the office didn't matter," Limbaugh said.

In attempting to explain why people are not "disgusted" by Trump's behavior, Limbaugh pointed to a "different generational era, particularly in our pop culture."

"And there are people, and probably an increasing number of people, who don't find anything wrong — in fact, not only do they not find anything wrong about it, they think it's refreshing," he said. They think it's refreshing that a real guy who talks like real people — i.e., like they do — is not acting all heady and lofty and uppity over them and is just behaving like anybody else would, like they would if they were in the same shoes."

Speaking of Wall Street the DOW finished at 17,000 even today. Unbelievable! I'm for HRC if she can continue this unimaginable growth in investments, Obama has been incredible for this country, and for my bottom line :-)

Sounds to me like they were trying to screw with Hillary. Both of them. And Trump knew Bernie would make him sound like the petulant child he is, so he backed out. Bernie never should have agreed to this in the first place.

Remember, in the debate "she" had with Biden, she was told to switch the subject when there was a question she didn't know the answer to and Gwen Ifill let her get away with it. If it were me, I would have said, "Thank you for shsring. Now answer the question!"

They all KNEW she was an idiot! Joe Biden's words to his adviser coming offstage, "you OWE me," because he could have had her for lunch and chose not to.

A friend just posted this about her and her daughter trying to see Planned Parenthood for OB-GYN checkups. This is in Phoenix.

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Me *calls Planned Parenthood for lady doctor appointments for me and Zoe*PP: As of the new year we can't treat you unless you have a referral.Me *calls primary care physician* *no available appointments*Me *calls new clinic* *refuses to see me after my work hours because I'm a new patient and need to come in at eleven or.... Whatever*Me *calls clinic an hour away per last clinics suggestion* *you should call Planned Parenthood we don't do that on your insurance*Me: Well I guess we just don't need those frivolous things like yearly check ups or birth control. Silly me.

Donald Trump would never debate a real politician. A first-term senator that has spent most of their term getting personal publicity, yes, a politician even like Kasich, no way. Trump has no debating skills. Trump has no evident skills of any description. Trump could never face Bernie Sanders- Trump couldn't even face Megyn Kelly.

Trump is chickenshit. I'm glad this story finally escaped, it'll make crap4palin look even worse.

Except the Bernie Bros tried to make it seem like hillary was too scared to show up. And finally, the truth is that Hillary was not invited until trump was a no-show. Seems very strange to me that the Bernie Bros chose to attack Hillary instead of Trump. Are the Bernie Bros all the old Ron Paul voters that never figured out he was just padding his retirement through fake Presidential runs?

Hillary and Bernie think before they speak, having Trump there would be like watching Hillary and Bernie debate the issues while someone reads Trump the rules to "connect four". In other words, they'd eat him alive and spit out his bones like a fish. Trump will most certainly lose if he becomes the nominee. He's not good at thinking on his feet nor thinking ahead to the possible follow up question while answering the first.

I keep recalling Ann Richards saying "Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth"

Gryphen,read the third paragraph.Hillary accepted an invitation which she had earlier rebuffed.I used to enjoy this blog.Now it's all Hillary all the time.Hillary is no progressive by any stretch of the imagination.First she was for the Keystone pipeline,now against.For TPP "the gold standard of trade agreements",now against it.Bernie released the transcript of his speeches to Wall Street,why won't Hillary?I was an early boster of Obama but when he refused to vote for the censure of the big telecoms when he was running against Hillary I knew he was just another politician.

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